While there is never a great time for a pandemic to hit, one occurring during an election year—making in-person…

The United States Department of Justice has declared New York City, Portland, Ore., and Seattle “anarchist…

Diddy and educational speaker Dr. Steve Perry announced on Thursday that they are opening their latest charter…

The family of Layleen Polanco, a trans-Afro-Latina who died while in solitary confinement at Rikers Island jail last…

“The city is dead,” I said, aloud, to no one, while each step I took crashed the same cement I’d fallen in love…

Police have been resisting forcefully to this year’s protests against their practise of brutalizing and killing…

You know, seeing police officers throw temper tantrums over people asking them to try to avoid killing Black people…

Tyler Perry is paying for the funeral of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, a little girl who was shot and killed in…

A year after trans Afro-Latina Layleen Xtravaganza Polanco died while imprisoned in solitary confinement at Rikers…

Last week, the New York Police Department drew the ire of the internet after some officers claimed that a Shake…

Calls for police departments to be defunded, dismantled and outright abolished have grown nationwide over the last…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared to make a major concession to anti-police brutality protesters on…

Ify Ike is in pain. So much so that she was unable to hold her composure enough to stick to the written speech that…

Nationwide protests prompted by the death of George Floyd continued Tuesday night and were mostly peaceful even as…

Across America on Thursday night, thousands of people marched to their state capitols, their public squares, their…

Amy Cooper made herself famous for all the wrong reasons when she called the police to report “an African-American…

A white woman took Karen-ing to a whole new level when she called the police on a black man in New York City’s…

Rapper, actor and Pro Era collective co-founder Joey Bada$$ tells The Root that each year, he creates a list of…

The mass closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of Americans losing their jobs. This has put…

Amber Isaac was a little more than a month away from her delivery date, and thrilled about the prospect of finally…